Red Pocket Mobile has just launched a new promotion exclusive to its GSMA network. The GSMA network refers to plans that utilize AT&T's network for service.
For a limited time Red Pocket Mobile will be offering an unlimited everything plan with the first 5GB of data at 4G LTE speeds for just $30/month. The plan normally includes just 3GB of data. Red Pocket Mobile says for as long as the promotion remains active, its customers will receive 5GB of data every month when they renew their plan. There is no timetable on how long the promotion will last.
Plan Summary And Promotion Details
Besides including unlimited talk, text and data, Red Pocket Mobile's $30 plan comes with unlimited calling to over 70 countries.
Although the plan includes unlimited data, once the high speed data allotment of 5GB gets used up, speeds get reduced to 2G or between 64 and 128 Kbps.
With the promotion in place, Red Pocket Mobile's plans are priced as follows:
Unless specified all plans are available for use on your choice of any major network in the USA, which includes AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon.
| Price | Mintues | Text | Data |
| $10 | 500 | 500 | 500 MB |
| $15 | 1000 | 1000 | 1 GB |
| $20 ($19 w autopay) | Unlimited | Unlimited | 500 MB |
| $30 ($25 w autopay) | Unlimited | Unlimited | 1.5 GB |
| $35 ($30 w autopay) | Unlimited | Unlimited | 3 GB* |
| $35 ($30 w autopay) | Unlimited | Unlimited | 5 GB* |
| $65 ($60 w autopay) | Unlimited | Unlimited | 10 GB* |
* denotes data is unlimited with specified amount of data at high speed. All other plans include data that is hard capped.
Is This Really A Deal? What Else Is Out There?
Yes!
Those looking for a good deal on a phone plan may have just found one with Red Pocket Mobile. With the promotion in place, Red Pocket Mobile is now offering more data at the $30 price point than any other AT&T based provider around.
However, bargain hunters may also want to take notice of H2O Wireless's latest promotional offering as well. For a limited time, the AT&T MVNO is offering 4GB of data for $30/month for the customers first 3 billing cycles. After that time, the data allotment gets reduced to just 2GB each month. New subscribers also get half off of their first month of service.
Red Pocket Mobile's promotional plan is going to be the better deal for customers who want more data AND want their data at full speed. H2O Wireless limits download speeds to a maximum of 8 Mbps and limits video streams to a resolution of 480p. There are no such restrictions with Red Pocket Mobile.
If they committed to offering the 5 GB for at least as far as you have paid up, that would make it worthwhile to purchase the 1 year “3 GB” package ($21.25/month). Otherwise, that 2 GB @ $15 for 1 year deal they offered during the holidays would be a great offer if it came back..
You mentioned them not throttling ATT (“full speed”). Is it confirmed they are not throttling neither ATT nor Verizon? Their Open Internet page hasn’t changed its published speed caps. Have you done any further speed tests since the initial trial?
By the way, in addition to the slow speeds at H2O, the fine print shows they still do not offer caller ID or caller ID block.
I’m no longer certain what is going on with Red Pocket Mobile. I had hoped to put out a review in the next couple of days, but that looks like it will have to be on hold now. I tested speeds almost every other day in January for Red Pocket Verizon and saw no throttling. Over the past several days now I’m seeing much slower speeds and things that suggest that there is serious throttling going on (at the start of speed tests, the download speed shoots up real fast, but only for a second before dropping almost instantly down down and staying in a very specific range). I need to investigate this further and at different times of day to be sure it has nothing to do with network congestion. It is possible that they are continuing to test things out. They actually called me a few weeks ago to tell me VoLTE is now active, yet right now I do not have VoLTE. VoLTE has come and gone for me 2 or 3 times since I began testing in January. I don’t think that it’s lasted for more than a week at a time, and I’ve definitely gone far more days without it than with it.
As far as AT&T service goes, at this time I’m only aware of H2O Wireless and Cricket Wireless throttling.
For the past several days I had speeds of 3 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload. After talking to customer support, they said they would “fix” that and reset something on their end. After the “fixing” speeds are 5 Mbps download and 2 Mbps upload. I will have to contact them again soon to see what is going on. I’d say that’s about 4-5x slower than it was with my first month of service.
Without knowing how soon the promotion will end, it is not enough reason for someone to move their phone number to them. They seem to be intentionally evasive on the period of time, much like H2O operates with most of it\s promotions. If it turns out to be just 1 or 2 months, then its a waste to make the move, and then move back to another service, with the resulting service interruptions.
Yeah, I don’t like not knowing on that front either. I do believe though that H2O is mostly upfront with their promotions. Only one really comes to mind where they didn’t put an end date. Their current promotions are all laid out in the fine print on their website.
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Is unlimited Int’l SMS included? 200+ countries like T-Mobile MVNOs or a select few?
They are not super clear about this. According to their Amazon page for the plan a RP rep says “International calling is valid until your plan expires. As for International Texting, international SMS are included but will be charge from their SMS buckets, both incoming and outgoing for CDMAS and GSMT accounts. For GSMA and CDMA, add-on purchase for funds would be required.”